The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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... thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat ...
... thing is dis- tinctly known , but all is shewn confused and en- larged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat ...
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... his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult- to tell any thing as it was heard , when 2 COWLEY .
... his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult- to tell any thing as it was heard , when 2 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and ...
Samuel Johnson. to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and ...
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... things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of ... thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from ...
... things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of ... thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from ...
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... thing to that purpose . " The expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ... things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the usurping powers , who ...
... thing to that purpose . " The expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ... things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the usurping powers , who ...
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